Most Workers Do Not Want To Work On A Holiday

While you are out enjoying this Labor Day holiday, try to remember that, like all holidays, it is supposed to be a holiday for everyone. But just like all holidays, there are people out there working. Most of these people are working because they really have no choice. They may be contract or temporary employees who do not necessarily get holidays. Some are providing essential services. Others may simply need the money. Most are probably low-paid, perhaps just getting minimum wage. Many are not getting overtime for working today. Most are probably not getting health care through their employer, either because they are temporary or contract employees or because they are not working enough hours to qualify. Quite simply most of them are just trying to get by.

So let’s try to be extra-special nice to those workers today – to the persons serving you breakfast at the diner; to the person ringing up your purchases at a Labor Day sale or the checkout person at the supermarket where you’re picking up burgers, dogs, and beer; even to the cop who’s giving you a speeding ticket. And if you can spare it, maybe throw them an extra buck just for being there today (well, maybe not with the cop – it probably won’t end well). But at least say, “thanks for working on Labor Day!”